What’s in a Wordle? Vocabulary Learning Made Fun Tilly Harrison University of Warwick.

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What’s in a Wordle? Vocabulary Learning Made Fun Tilly Harrison University of Warwick

Dedicated to Tim Johns, a great teacher and huge inspiration to me

Overview Looking at a Wordle Relation to Corpus Linguistics What is Wordle? How to make a Wordle Teaching ideas using Wordle Discussion

Text Focus Look at Wordle on the green handout which has the words in large letters ‘our’ and ‘university’ Discuss these questions with your neighbour:  Which university is it talking about?  What kind of text do you think it came from?  ‘with’ was a frequent word in the text - can you identify any words that went with it?  Can you identify any likely phrases from the text?  Can you make a sentence with these words that could have come from the text?  What language activities could you do with this Wordle?

Text Focus ff_University ff_University _eltcs/als/als2008/wordles _eltcs/als/als2008/wordles

What is a Wordle? A ‘beautiful word cloud’ Made by IBM software engineer, Jonathan Feinberg Free to use, graphics made are yours to keep Any text can be used More frequent words are larger Very quick and flexible

Corpus Linguistics ‘The Idiom Principle’ (Sinclair, 1991) suggests that much of language is ‘semi-preconstructed phrases’ Collocation illustrates the idiom principle and is an essential aspect of word knowledge Language ‘should be studied in authentic attested instances of use’ (Stubbs 1996: 23) “Frequency in the corpus is observable evidence of probability in the system” (Halliday, 1991; Stubbs, 2007)

Relation to Corpus Linguistics Wordle invites you to work with authentic texts (instances of use) Wordle shows frequency Wordle encourages focus on collocation and chunking Wordle is fun and visually attractive - concordance lines are not!

Wordle Creation Language Font Layout Colour Publishing to the Gallery How to Capture your Wordle

How to make a Wordle 1

How to make a Wordle 2

Including Common Words 1

Including Common Words 2

Changing the Font

Restricting the number of words

Adding Colour

Publishing to the Gallery

Teaching Suggestions Text Focus Text Comparison Concept Focus Word Focus List Focus Grammar Focus

Text Focus _a_Good_Essay _a_Good_Essay s/als2008/goodessays/ s/als2008/goodessays/ s/als2008/wordles/essaytext s/als2008/wordles/essaytext

References Halliday, M.A.K. (1991) ‘Corpus studies and Probabilistic Grammar’ in Aijmer and Altenberg English Corpus Linguisitcs London: Longman Sinclair, J. (1991) Corpus, Concordance, Collocation Oxford: OUP Stubbs, M. (1996). Text and Corpus Analysis. Oxford: Blackwell. Stubbs, M. (2007) in Hoey, M., M. Mahlberg, M. Stubbs and W. Teubert Text, Discourse and Corpora: theory and Analysis London: Continuum